Nexenta Lands in China’s Cloud Valley

Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that the company had signed an agreement to base its Greater China presence in Beijing’s Cloud Valley. Nexenta will use its presence in Cloud Valley to support its growing ranks of customers and partners. Cloud Valley is a 7,000-square-meter technology campus and the creation of… Continue reading Nexenta Lands in China’s Cloud Valley

Embrane Poised to Unlock the Bottleneck of Cloud Adoption

Founded by seasoned networking executives, Embrane™ today outlined its strategy to help cloud service providers (CSPs) and enterprises build more agile networks for delivering cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The foundation of Embrane’s strategy is heleos™, the industry’s first distributed software platform for virtualizing layer 4-7 network services, also announced today. “The cloud changes everything about the… Continue reading Embrane Poised to Unlock the Bottleneck of Cloud Adoption

VirtualSharp and AvantaaS Announce New Assured Recovery as a Service (RaaS)

VirtualSharp Software, the leading provider of next generation automated Disaster Recovery solutions for private and public clouds, and AvantaaS, the leading channel Cloud Service Provider in Spain, today announced the immediate availability of a groundbreaking RaaS for applications running on VMware vSphere. By 2014, 30 percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known… Continue reading VirtualSharp and AvantaaS Announce New Assured Recovery as a Service (RaaS)

Embrane Unveils Distributed Software Platform for Virtualizing Network Services

Embrane today announced the immediate availability of heleos, the first distributed software platform for powering on-demand elastic network services such as load balancers, firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs) and WAN Optimization. Targeted to cloud service providers (CSPs) and enterprises building public, private or hybrid cloud environments, the unique platform enables the procurement, provisioning and configuration… Continue reading Embrane Unveils Distributed Software Platform for Virtualizing Network Services

The 7 Biggest Risks Of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is rapidly transforming the IT landscape, and the conversation around adopting cloud technology has progressed from “if” to “when.” Enterprises are showing strong interest in outsourced (“public”) cloud offerings that can help them reduce costs and increase business agility. These cloud services offer enormous economic benefits, but they also pose significant potential risks… Continue reading The 7 Biggest Risks Of Cloud Computing

GameStop Selects Veeam to Monitor Virtual Environment in Microsoft System Center

GameStop Corp., the world’s largest multichannel video game retailer, has chosen the Veeam nworks Management Pack™ (MP) for VMware to monitor and manage its virtual environment through Microsoft System Center. Already nworks MP has proven to accelerate the progression of tracking root cause problems. As the holiday season swings into full gear, maximizing availability and… Continue reading GameStop Selects Veeam to Monitor Virtual Environment in Microsoft System Center

Cloud-based IT security benchmarking solution now supports all vulnerability management products

nCircle, the leader in automated security and compliance auditing solutions, today announced the addition of native support in nCircle Benchmark for Tenable Nessus, a commonly used open source vulnerability assessment product with over five million downloads. With the addition of the Tenable Nessus data adapter, nCircle Benchmark now supports all of the most common vulnerability… Continue reading Cloud-based IT security benchmarking solution now supports all vulnerability management products

CiiNOW Raises $13 Million in Funding for Cross-Platform Cloud Application Delivery System

CiiNOW, a leading cloud compute platform developer, today announced it has raised $13 million in Series-A funding from Foundation Capital, Alcatel-Lucent and a third strategic investor. Founded by Internet and graphics industry veterans, CiiNOW (pronounced see-now) is positioned to change the way cloud infrastructure is built and how applications are developed and delivered across a… Continue reading CiiNOW Raises $13 Million in Funding for Cross-Platform Cloud Application Delivery System